Friday, 30 September 2016

Reinforcements

I've been looking at the forces I've assembled so far for both Timonistan and Pumbaaskaya and realised that I had some gaps in both capabilities and models that I wanted to fill, so I placed an order for some reinforcements with Fighting 15s for some more Oddzial Osmy figures:

WBR-613 Universal Carrier
SA-677 GAZ69 all-terrain utility car

The TO&E on the blog's Timonistan & Pumbaaskaya pages have changing fairly regularly recently. One change definitely staying is putting company command stands on 2p peices and adding a universal carrier or GAZ-69 to the base to identify it. I have definite ideas how to use these, but for now, armies with flexible western style command - Timonistan - will have 2 command stands in a company and those with rigid soviet style command - Pumbaaskaya - will have 1 command stand in a company.

Timonistan has a support level of 8 (on scale of 1-10), so although I'm not going to model artillery units, I thought it should have some kind of on-table support, so after scouring the Oddzial Osmy figure list, I settled on the modern russian 120mm mortars. This comes with 6 GAZ-66 trucks that I'll use in the Pumbaaskayan forces and replace with the Morris Quad in pack WBR-628.

With Iskanderan making frequent announcements about their air force and its quality, I really needed some AA capability, so I got this to split between Timonistan and Pumbaaskaya:

WBR-624 Bofors 40mm and Morris

With 6 pieces in the pack, 3 will go to each nation. The Timoni Bofors will have Morris Quads as tow vehicles.

Given the problems that the Pumbaanish MBTs will have against the Timoni heavy tanks, it seemed logical for them to get some heavier AT weapon - hence the MT12 - and finally the BTR-152 and infantry are to add another Pumbaanish infantry company.

So the arms race continues!

PS - painted the Pumbaani infantry last night; will hopefully sand the bases over the weekend and make a start on the terrain